How to Be Less Rude, With the Lifehacker Staff

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The entire Lifehacker staff convened in New York City and gathered in the studio this week to answer etiquette questions sent in by our readers. Want to know how often you should acknowledge a coworker in the office hallway? How to politely exit a conversation? Or how to tell a spouse that he’s a bit of a mansplainer? Lucky for you, we have all the answers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:21.1	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.
0:23.5	And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor and Melissa's best friend.
0:27.6	That is true.
0:28.6	Today we are talking about etiquette.
0:31.0	We put out a call on the website for etiquette questions, and we received so many of them from you guys,
0:35.6	and we are reading a selection of them today.
0:38.6	To start us off, we are talking about tech etiquette with Patrick Austin and Beth Scorke.
0:45.1	Hi, I'm Patrick Austin. I'm a staff writer at LifeHacker based in New York, and I write about mostly tech and productivity news that you say. Hi, I'm Beth Skorkewrecki. I'm a staff writer here at LifeHacker. I write about mostly tech and productivity news that you say.
0:54.5	Hi, I'm Beth Skorke. I'm a staff writer here at LifeHacker. I write for Vitals, and I'm here from Pittsburgh.
1:01.7	Now, I should say that each of the segments on the show will have a loose sort of topic that we begin with, but it may get away from us.
1:09.3	So we've broken the show down into different
1:13.0	sections, but they're all sort of general. Yeah, we received so many questions about socializing
1:18.6	and the etiquette around just getting along with other people that they kind of bled into all the
1:24.5	categories. So this is from gender neutral username, who asks,
1:29.4	how do you tell someone you aren't on any major social media platforms without coming off as a snob?
1:36.1	Now, then the person goes on to write, I genuinely have zero interest in Facebook, Instagram,
1:41.5	Twitter, et cetera.
1:42.3	But when it comes up, I feel like the, oh, we don't
1:45.3	own a TV douchebag we've all met. I'm not avoiding those things as a form of self-gratification
1:50.7	or a superiority complex. I just never signed up for them, except for Facebook, which I let
1:56.2	lap several years ago because I just stopped caring about it all. What do you guys think?
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